Hi: I have been on Finasteride four months and it’s been a nightmare. No seamen, hot flashes, joint pain, digestive problems,IBS has worsened to the point I am quitting Finisteride today. As far as I’m concerned the side effects have been absolutely not worth it. I know I need to be on it longer than 4 months to see an improvement, but I can’t take the side effects any longer. I should mention the foul smelling urine and the BO that I have NEVER had before taking Finasteride. Does anyone know of a natural cure?
I had scheduled a prostate biopsy and canceled it after reading the article from the US Preventative Services Task Force saying that after all the biopsy’s and all the prostate operations that all of these procedures urologists do, they extend the life of one man out of 1,000. Long story short, am not going to have another PSA, biopsy, or operation. By the way, prostate biopsy’s are a three billion dollar a year business. Think about it, they hook us in with the elevated PSA, which from what I’ve read is like flipping a coin, to a biopsy and then to an operation. I for one am not going to do it. I know three people personally that had biopsy’s and they told me it was the worst thing they had ever been through in their entire lives. Two of them couldn’t urinate afterwords and had to go to the emergency room and have a catheter put in and one came down with a blood infection and almost died. Nope, not for me. Medicine is a lot of things, but one thing for sure, it’s a business that needs to make money to survive.
My mother told me forty years ago never to go to a doctor unless you have to be carried there in an ambulance and forty years later I really think she was on to something.